Emergency-coupling.



EMERGENCY COUPLING. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17, 1909.

Patented Aug. 30, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFTCE,

JOHN G. JACKSON, 01? DUNLO, PENNSYLVANIA; AGNES ANN JACKSON ADMINISTRA-TRIX OF SAID JOHN G. JACKSON, DECEASED.

EMERGENCY-COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 30, 1910.

Application filed June 17, 1909. Serial No. 502,784.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Dunlo, in the county of Cambria and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEmergency-Couplers, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to emergency couplers for rolling stock, eitherelectric or steam railways, the coupler being appliable to passenger andfreight cars, also locomotives.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and effective means forconnecting two cars, whereby should the ordinary and well known type ofcoupler break or become otherwise injured, said cars will be preventedfrom separating, thus saving considerable time and labor in connectingthe cars, and eliminating all danger of wrecks or accidents incurred byone part of the train accidentally separating from the other part.

I attain the above object by providing an emergency coupler that can beeasily embodied in the present types of rolling stock withoutnecessitating any alterations or material changes, and in order that myinvention, which will be hereinafter described in detail, can be fullyunderstood, reference will now be had to the drawing forming part ofthis specification, wherein there is illustrated a preferred embodimentof the invention, but it is to be understood that the structuralelements thereof can be varied or changed, as to the shape, size andmanner of assemblage, without departing from the spirit and scope of theinvention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the emergency couplerpartly broken away and partly in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan of thesame.

In the drawings, 1 denotes the end sills of two confronting cars, thesesills supporting the draw bars 2 of ordinary car couplers. The sills 1are provided with bushings 3 and angle plates 4, said plates havingopenings 5 formed therein alining longitudinally with the bushing 3. p

6 designates auxiliary draw bars extending through said plates and saidbushings. The outer or confronting ends of said auxiliary draw bars areprovided with heads 7 having hooks 8, the hooks of one car being thereverse of the hooks of an adjoining car.

9 designates yokes pivotally connected to the heads 7, as at 10, andconnecting with said yokes are links 11, the links of one car engagingthe hooks of an adjoining car, and vice versa, whereby the links andyokes will form a durable connection between the cars independent of theordinary couplers.

The auxiliary draw bars 6 adjacent to the sills 1 are provided withcollars 12. Mounted upon the auxiliary draw bars and engaging thecollars are cup shaped washers 13, and encircling said draw bars betweenthe angle plates 4 and said washers are coil springs 14:, said springs,washers 13 and collars 12 serving functionally as a draft-gearing inconnection with the emergency couplers.

15 designates transverse beams carried by the cars for guiding andsupporting the ends of the auxiliary draw bars 6, and the ends of saidbars are provided with threaded shanks 16 for nuts 17, said nutslimiting the movement of the draw bar 6 relative to the sills l and thebeams 15.

It is apparent that should the ordinary coupler of two cars break, thatmy auxiliary couplers will serve functionally the same purposes as theordinary coupler and will connect two cars until such time that theordinary coupler can be repaired or renewed.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, is

In an emergency coupler for cars, the combination with a car sill and anabutment extending in parallelism with respect thereto and arrangedinwardly thereof, of a pair of bushings mounted in said sill, a pair ofapertured angle-irons having the horizontal portions thereof secured tothe bottom of the sill and their vertical portions arranged against theinner face of the sill and provided with openings registering with theopenings in the bushings, draw-bars extending through the bushings andangle-irons and of a length as to project through said abutment, headsupon the outer ends of the draw-bars, yokes straddling andpivotallyconnected to the heads, links carried by said yokes, collarsmounted upon the draw-bars between the abutment and sill, flangedwashers abutting against said collars, springs means adapted to engagethe sill for limitmounted upon the bars and interposed 'being the inwardmovement of the draw-bars. 10

tween the Washers and the vertical portions In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature of the angle-irons, means mounted upon the in the presenceof two witnesses.

inner end of the draw-bars inwardly of the JOHN G. JACKSON. abutment andadapted to engage the abut- Witnesses:

ment for limiting the outward movement of H. RITCHEY,

the draw-bars, and said head provided with 1 WM. CAMPBELL.

